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26 Jun 2017

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Kin­ji Fukasaku’s Dober­man Cop is final­ly avail­able on home video in the UK.

Released in 1977 when yakuza movies were at peak pop­u­lar­i­ty both at home in Japan and abroad, Dober­man Cop saw direc­tor Kin­ji Fukasaku reunite with star Shinichi Son­ny” Chi­ba for an Amer­i­can-style crime thriller that bril­liant­ly com­bines mar­tial arts, low­brow com­e­dy and blis­ter­ing gun­play. Arguably the pair’s most pulpy and enter­tain­ing film, it’s final­ly being made avail­able in the UK cour­tesy of our good pals at Arrow Video.

The film is based on the man­ga com­ic of the same name by Buron­son”, who also cre­at­ed the clas­sic man­ga ser­i­al Fist of the North Star’. It fol­lows Chi­ba as a hard­boiled police offi­cer (think Japan’s answer to Dirty Har­ry) who arrives in the seedy heart of Tokyo’s club­bing dis­trict in search of a vio­lent killer.

Nev­er before released on home video out­side of Japan, Dober­man Cop remains some­thing of a cult odd­i­ty which fans of Quentin Taran­ti­no and the action com­e­dy B‑movies of the 1970s should def­i­nite­ly seek out.

Dober­man Cop is released on Dual For­mat DVD and Blu-ray 26 June via Arrow Video. 

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